Ratsbier
Dentleiner Hauf-Bräu

Brown flip-top half-litre bottle, best before 8 Jan 2010, drank three days later (11 Jan 2010), so just out of date.

Poured three times into a 0.2 litre Veltins stemmed tulip glass. Each pour produced a good looking copper coloured beer with a fine deep off-white head Plenty of life to be seen, bubbles rising throughout the tasting, so lots of carbonisation. The body was almost clear, just the hint of a haze.

Fairly malty in the smell, a sweet molasses type aroma I suppose. Not sickly, but on the sweet side.

The sweetness from the malty aroma carried on into the taste. A little on the fizzy side, all those bubbles mentioned in the apperance attack you as you sip the beer.

The beer dried somewhat in the aftertaste, but appeared full bodied and well balanced for a lager based beer.

I enjoyed this beer a lot better than my first beer from this brewery, thank goodness, because i have more to review. They export to the UK, but I don't think anywhere else.